Four hundred fifty million for justice: the cure after the agony

Published on June 26, 2026 | Translated from Spanish

The promise of 450 million to modernize the justice system sounds like a victory, but it smells of hypocrisy. It arrives after years of cuts, collapsed courts, and a citizenry that no longer believes in deadlines. The problem is not the financial injection, but that it is only activated when the crisis becomes unsustainable, while governments prioritize tax breaks or missiles over ensuring a court functions without delays.

Aging courtroom computer monitor displaying a loading wheel of justice, cracked screen showing frozen digital gavel icon, piles of dusty case files stacked on broken office chair, a leaking hourglass dripping sand onto a disconnected keyboard, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting from a single flickering fluorescent tube, photorealistic technical illustration, ultra-detailed dust particles suspended in air, worn-out legal code books with torn spines, shadows stretching across peeling linoleum floor, cinematic wide-angle shot

GDP Funds: the recipe against disposable justice 💰

The technical solution involves institutionalizing a permanent fund linked to GDP, as countries like Germany or Canada already do. This would guarantee a stable flow to digitize files, hire staff, and maintain artificial intelligence systems for case management. Without this budgetary anchor, any investment is a patch that deflates with the next change of government, perpetuating judicial overload.

Justice like wifi: only remembered when it fails 📶

It seems our politicians treat justice like home wifi: it works poorly, but no one invests until the connection drops in the middle of a show. Then the 450 million arrive like a new router, but the signal falters again within a month. The funny thing is that, meanwhile, defense budgets rise on their own, as if judges were going to distribute missiles instead of sentences.